DevOps is the combination of Development and Operations. And yes, it is not perfect. It has mistakes, too. Mistakes which must be avoided.
Too Much Simplification
This refer to the DevOps framework and strategy. Hence organizations usually hire DevOps engineers to create these frameworks and strategies.
DevOps processes are often lengthy and complicated. Therefore, instead of creating a separate DevOps department, organizations must focus on optimizing their processes to create operational products. Thus leveraging the right set of resources. Moreover, for successful DevOps implementation, organizations must manage the DevOps frameworks, leveraging operational experts and other resources. This will help manage DevOps related tasks.
It is also very important for organizations to train and educate its employees regarding the new DevOps processes. Likewise, acquire the right frameworks in place to enable careful collaboration.
Firm DevOps Processes
Compliance with core DevOps tenets is essential for the success of DevOps. Hence, organizations have to proactively make intelligent adjustments in response to enterprise demands. In addition, organizations thus have to ensure that the main DevOps pillars remain stable during DevOps implementation. Likewise, they make the internal adjustments that are needed in internal benchmarking of the expected outcomes.
Furthermore, instrumenting codebases in a granular manner and making them more partitioned gives more flexibility. It also gives DevOps teams the power to backtrack and identify the root cause of diversion in the event of failed outcomes. However, all adjustments have to be made while remaining within the boundaries defined by DevOps.
Purposeful Automation Is Not In Use
Organizations must adopt purposeful automation in DevOps. Therefore, it is essential for organizations to implement automation on the continuous integration and continuous delivery pipeline.
On the other hand, organizations need to keep their eyes open to identify opportunities for automation across processes and functions. This will help reduce the need for manual hand offs for difficult integrations that need additional management. Likewise, in multiple format deployments.
Feature-based Development Over Trunk-based Development
Feature-based development and trunk-based development are collaborative workflows. Primarily, feature-based development is a development style that provides individual features their isolated sandboxes thus, adding to DevOps complexity.
DevOps automates many aspects of the code between development and production environments. Thus, the different conceptual flavors on the codebase makes DevOps more complex.
On the other hand, trunk-based development allows developers to work in a coherent and single version of the codebase. It also alleviates this problem by giving developers the capability to manage features through selective deployments instead of through version control.
Test Environment Is Not Good
Organizations must separate test and production environment from each other, in order to make DevOps successful. In DevOps, the testing process starts in the early stages of development. Hence, test environments must resemble infrastructures in production as close as possible.
DevOps ensure that test environments are set up in hosting and provider accounts which are different from what you use in production. Testing teams also have to simulate the production environment as closely as possible as applications perform differently on local machines and during production.
Wrong Architecture Evaluation
DevOps must have the right architectural support. DevOps aims to reduce the time spent on deploying applications. Thus, DevOps teams have to focus and concentrate to the architecture. It is important that the architecture is loosely coupled to give developers the freedom and flexibility to deploy parts of the system independently so that the system does not break.
Incident Management Is Incorrect
DevOps must have strong incident management processes in the event of an imperfect process. Incident management is a proactive and continuous process. In other words, it must be able to define incident response.
Incorrect Metrics To Measure Project Success
Faster delivery is possible with DevOps. However, if acceleration comes at the cost of quality,it means the DevOps program is a failure. It is essential to consider metrics that align velocity with throughput success.
To Conclude
DevOps is a big help in software development. It can produce quality output and make delivery faster. Therefore, organizations must avoid these DevOps mistakes. This will ensure the efficiency of DevOps.